Both of these ladies are examples of frontier women who although they carried a pistol, they never fired their guns, preferring to rely on frontier chivalry to correct problems with ladies.
Alice was perhaps the most nerveless poker dealer in the history of poker. Although she was always armed with her long barrel Colt in order to persuade reluctant customers, there is no record she ever discharged it.
Eleanor as Colorado City's Minnie the Gambler, dealt stud poker up and down the west until well into 1904. She was never known to even have a weapon in her hand throughout her 25 year career as poker dealer for Charlie Utter. Why she is included in this list of women is unknown, but I think we can imagine that any women who was a traveling stud poker dealer during the Wild West days, must have been tough enough!
Next time we meet Madame Vestal...
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